News - Middle East: News headlines and media coverage over the past week focused solely on the Yemeni military’s unprecedented ‘Yafa’ drone that struck Tel Aviv, which was followed by Israeli aggression.

The fact is that the latest Yemeni military operation is way more significant and sends a strong message that news headlines have covered. It marks a paradigm shift in operations against the Zionist entity.

For several months now, the Axis of Resistance, beginning in Gaza, decided to counter a new American proposal, which some in the Israeli political and military establishment had accepted.

Washington has tried to convince Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime to shift to a third stage.

This third stage is based on ground realities: The ongoing massacres and wide-scale destruction in the besieged Palestinian territory aren’t producing the desired results or achieving anything for the regime.

Public opinion among the Palestinian people about their resistance has grown stronger despite more than 39,000 innocent civilians, most of them children and women, being killed since October 2023.

Netanyahu’s team is only hoodwinking the world and their own settlers when they repeatedly state that this is the final battle to “wipe out Hamas”, or “four Hamas battalions are left in Rafah” only to assault the same places again and again by air, ground and sea.

The cycle has been endless.

The US military is in direct contact with the Israeli military on a daily basis and is fully aware of the capabilities of the Israeli army and how long it can survive.

This is the same army waging genocide in Gaza that Washington depends on for its survival in order to maintain America’s hegemony in the West Asia region.

It’s fit to recall the words of President Joe Biden, who as a young Senator in the 1980s, famously said if Israel didn't exist; the US would have to create one to protect its interests in the region.

For this reason, Israeli and American generals are, in essence, sitting in one operation room overseeing a genocide that is now in its tenth month and likely to continue.

But in the rare assessments that have been heard by senior Israeli generals and alluded to by the US Secretary of Defense, the “total victory” that Netanyahu speaks of is a pipedream based on illusions, which can collapse the already shaky foundations of the Israeli army.